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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget that many small propeller driven aircraft run on leaded gas, and it's a formulation of leaded gas that has 10x the lead that motor fuel used to.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But, didn't you hear the Midgey guy who invented TEL like 100 years ago? You can safely breathe it and even wash your hands in it! (said right after he got lead poisoning)

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Then he went on to make Freon.